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Annenberg Media is a student-led multiplatform newsroom overseen and funded by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Many of the journalists are working weekly shifts in the newsroom to fulfill curricular requirements. Annenberg Media is independent of the university administration. Please direct news tips and press releases to mediacentereditors@gmail.com

The Woolsey fire was the largest fire in the history of LA county. To tell the story of Woolsey is to tell the story of a community that is still rebuilding from loss over a year later. And living in a state where wildfires are the new normal, they're not the only ones. (Video by Annenberg TV News)

On today’s show, we have an update on the 2020 election polls, a recap of last week’s Youth Climate Strike, and an update on the Varsity Blues scandal. We cover protests surrounding the new L.A. Clippers stadium in Inglewood. We get student opinions on the local elections and how cities are responding to the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. All that and more, from where we are.

USC students often claim that compared to our counterparts at UC Berkeley and UCLA, our student body is less politically active. The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement’s 2014 report on USC’s student voting rates supports these claims. It shows that the university’s voting rate was 2.6 percent lower than the aggregate voting rate of more than 1,000 colleges and universities. In the 2014 midterms, less freshmen and sophomores voted than upperclassmen. Less undergraduates voted th

READ AND SCROLL THROUGH: A House Becomes a Home — Dan Sheetz We walked by a house with an Orange Tree and said, “We should live there one day.” The house was faded blue in color accented by pink rose bushes lining a rusty black gate and, you guessed it, bright orange oranges topping the trees around the house. It had an ornate Queen Anne style façade with huge bay windows and a front porch that was weathered from tenants sitting together and looking out onto S Hoover Street. We walked by a hous

It started with a juice cleanse — three days, 18 bottles of juice, $135 — three-and a-half pounds lost. “That was living hell, but I’ll go to Nekter, do the five-day one next,” says USC sophomore Sarah. Sarah’s eating disorder began last spring when all of her new friends were chatting about the “freshman 15” they had put on. With plans to rush a sorority their next semester, many of them became increasingly fixated on how to lose weight. They used tactics like juice cleansing, meant to boost w

Our university “bookstore” has more protein bars than books. One day after roaming through aisles of bougie pimple creams and custom USC sneakers, acclaimed USC English professor William Handley remembers asking the young woman at the checkout incredulously, “Where are the books?” She peered around cautiously, then whispered, “I think we have more of a sour snack selection than we do real books.” Why doesn’t our university have an authentic bookstore? I don’t mean the type of bookstore that s

An L.A. native, I’ve waded through a sea of the city’s most promising players. I’ve had my heart marred by the son of a Middle Eastern mogul, been duped by a handful of Hollywood’s finest college dropouts and have made painstakingly boring conversation with USC Marshall School of Business’ best and brightest. I learned that it is imperative to stay safely buckled in the L.A. love scene. Among brainless Manhattan Beach surfer boys and 22-year-old billionaires, defensive emotional driving is a mu